Posts Tagged “overestimate”

• A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.~ Douglas Adams
• Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.  ~  H. L. Mencken
• If you can keep your head while all about are losing theirs and blaming it on you – perhaps you have underestimated the seriousness of the situation.~ Author Unknown
• In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment. That reliance can also lead to delusions of control.~ Hillel J. Einhorn
• I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.  ~ Oscar Wilde
• It is impossible to overestimate the immense need that humans have to be listened to, understood, and taken seriously.~ Author Unknown
• It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Never, ever underestimate the power of “Id Like that.”~ John Mayer
• Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Never underestimate the potential and power of the human spirit.~ Author Unknown
• Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit… The potential for greatness lives within each of us.~ Wilma Rudolph
• Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.~ Robert Heinlein
• Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.~ Author Unknown
• Never underestimate the value of cold cash.~ Gregory Nunn
• Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.~ Robert H. Schuller
• No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year — and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!~ Anthony Robbins
• The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.    H. L. Mencken
• The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages.~ Charles Darwin
• The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. ~ Robert Stuberg
• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.~ Leo Buscaglia
• Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgement are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated~ Friedrich Nietzsche
• You can’t underestimate the power of fear.~ Patricia Nixon
• You can concede to an opponent something he hasn’t earned. It’s one thing to underestimate an opponent. But maybe the worst thing is to overestimate. You always play your strengths. But that doesn’t mean you become predictable.~ Chuck Knox

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